User:SuperHamster <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster> hasdone a remarkable amount of volunteering for Wikimedia in the United Statesthis year. In addition to supporting the Ohio Wikimedians User Group<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091277.html>,this year he was an organizer for both Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in theUnited States<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_the_United_States>(which had over 10,000 entries and almost 2,000 participants), andWikiConferenceNorth America 2018 <https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Main_Page> whichtook place at the Ohio State University Libraries and the ColumbusMetropolitan Library.

Deb <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_(WMF)> sent two emailsto Wikitech-l with many links regarding the events at the WikimediaTechnical Conference. [1<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-October/091041.html>][2<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-October/091048.html>].I encourage anyone who would like to know what happened at the conferenceto read Deb's emails.

Wikidata's sixth birthday<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday> is on 29 October2018. I will take this opportunity to say that, from my perspective, Ithink that Lydia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE)>has done a lot of good work on Wikidata, and I think that the project isflourishing partly due to her consistently good execution. She doesn't calla lot of attention to herself, but I think that what she has done isimpressive.

What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in anylanguage.